Desire is Evil? || Acharya Prashant

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00:00What has morality taught you? Desire is evil, but that's not so in the case of the Rig Veda.

00:05Here you see the very dance of desire. Mother River, can I ask for one more thing?

00:09I'll worship you more, but please give me this thing. As I said, like a naked child,

00:13unafraid to ask, constantly inviting the gods, you please come, the feast is ready.

00:19If you will not know that you have been desirous since ages, if you will not face, acknowledge,

00:26encounter your desires, there is no way of getting liberated from them. But social sanctions

00:32and religious morality, they prevent us from acknowledging that we desire so much and so many

00:41objects.